Repair Windows

Somehow one of my systemfiles are missing and I can't start windows. I need to repair it. I can't repair it with any of the Windows XPs I've downloaded and if I try to use the Master DVD from packardbell that I got when I bought my computer I have to use some sort of System Serial Number to start the recovery process.

You need to boot to a cmd line (DOS) prompt with, I assume, USB support for the external HDD.

In all of the following commands, do not type the quotation marks and observe spacing (case does not matter). FYI cd = change directory (where directory is what Windows now calls folders)

At the command prompt type "cd X:" where "X" is the drive letter of the external HDD (which is not necessarily going to be the same drive letter assigned by Windows when you boot to windows normally; be sure to include the colon after the drive letter)>hit ENTER

If your file is on a particular directory within the HDD, you would type "cd directory name" (where directory name is what you are calling the XFiles folder; no colon)>hit ENTER. If you have your HDD partitioned with more than one partition, you type the drive letter of the appropriate partition.

Once you locate the file, type "copy system Root:\Windows\System32\Config" where root is C:\,D:\, etc, wherever the Windows directory is located> hit ENTER. By the way, to view all of the files located in a particular directory as you navigate, type "dir /p" hit ENTER. Dir = directory contents; /p means one page at a time (if you do not use /p the entire drive contents scrolls by non stop; /p loads a page - then hit ENTER/PAGE DOWN - I think either will work - and the next page will load, etc.)

That should copy the file back to the . . .\Config subdirectory.

Reboot

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